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03 August, 2007
Denim silk sarees?
I thought sarees were supposed to be soft, flowing feminine garments—until Prabhu pointed me to the image below, an ad for denim silk sarees [source], featuring a denim-saree-clad woman in a Marlboro-macho environment. Immense bafflement overflows. Leather salwars next?
Personally, I have no issues with breaking gender stereotypes when it comes to clothing. But wouldn’t all that denim be a bit, um, heavy?
(Previous posts on sarees and salwars: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.)
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
